by Bruce Brown | August 9, 2018 | General News, Medical
Approximately 10 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson’s Disease (PD) which makes it the second-most common neurological disease, according to the CDC. Early detection is key with Parkinson’s. The sooner neuroprotective treatment begins after...
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by Bruce Brown | August 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
A perfect storm in health care heading toward the U.S. is building momentum. An aging population, horrifying increases in chronic illnesses due to poor lifestyle choices, plus a serious and growing shortage of physicians threaten the availability of quality care....
by Bruce Brown | July 27, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), approximately 26 million Americans — more than 8% of the population — suffer from asthma. A chronic disease that affects the airways in the lungs, asthma’s...
by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2018 | General News, Medical
Text messaging, or texting, started with a “Merry Christmas” message sent to employees in 1992 by a Vodafone engineer, according to Mashable. After initial explosive growth, texting began to decline in 2009 and hit its nadir in 2012, BigFish PR wrote in...
by Bruce Brown | July 10, 2018 | General News, Medical
Telehealth and telemedicine aren’t magic pills that cure all U.S. healthcare ills, but recent advances in remote care delivery technologies are having a Field of Dreams moment. Funding cuts, doctor shortages, and hospital closures in rural America have created a...
by Bruce Brown | July 9, 2018 | General News, Medical
Statistics regarding the prevalence of depression in the U.S. are hardly uplifting. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), one in six adults in the U.S. will have depression at some time in their lives. In any given year, approximately 16...
